Comment 5 for bug 470157

I can confirm this on Lucid Lynx Alpha 1+. This happens to me with the financial statements from my savings company, and it has been quite annoying not to able to read them without booting into Windows. This bug led me to discover xpdf, which apparently is able to cope with missing fonts, whereas evince silently fails (only if I start evince from the command line can I see all the error messages).

This is quite a serious bug; currently the importance is Low, which is way too low. How can I trust that evince is not silently ignoring some text in my documents? At the very least, evince should warn the user that the some text in the document is not being displayed, but I don't think it's unreasonable to use some other font instead (like xpdf apparently does).

The same goes for okular and gimp (the similarity of the console error output indicates that they share the same pdf reading component).